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Bleak House [videorecording] / by Charles Dickens ; a BBC-TV production in association with The Arts and Entertainment Network.

Contributor(s): Publisher number: E2335 | BBC Home VideoSeries: Charles Dickens collection | BBC Video classics | Charles Dickens Collection | BBC Video ClassicsPublication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2005.Description: 1 videodisc (418 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1419814494
Other title:
  • Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Uniform titles:
  • Bleak House (Motion picture)
  • Masterpiece theatre (Television program)
Contained works:
  • Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak house
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.45/72 22
Production credits:
  • Photographer, Kenneth Macmillan; editor, Clare Douglas; music, Geoffrey Burgon; producers, John Harris, Betty Willingale; director, Ross Devenish.
Cast: Diana Rigg, Denholm Elliott.Summary: "At the court of Chancery, the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case grinds on for years with no end in sight. Entangled in the lawsuit are a growing number of innocent victims: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a child with mysterious parentage; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. As the case staggers onward, yet more people become embroiled in the furious legal battle, including the proud Lady Dedlock, who finds herself persecuted by the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, then hunted by the determined Inspector Bucket, one of the first detectives to appear in English literature. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core [...]"--Container.
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DVD DVD Hanover Public Library Shelves DVDA BLEAK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906001022780

Originally produced for television in 1985 as episodes of the television series, Masterpiece Theatre.

Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

Episodes 1-4 on side A and episodes 5-8 on side B.

Photographer, Kenneth Macmillan; editor, Clare Douglas; music, Geoffrey Burgon; producers, John Harris, Betty Willingale; director, Ross Devenish.

Diana Rigg, Denholm Elliott.

"At the court of Chancery, the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case grinds on for years with no end in sight. Entangled in the lawsuit are a growing number of innocent victims: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a child with mysterious parentage; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. As the case staggers onward, yet more people become embroiled in the furious legal battle, including the proud Lady Dedlock, who finds herself persecuted by the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, then hunted by the determined Inspector Bucket, one of the first detectives to appear in English literature. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core [...]"--Container.

Not rated ; Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

DVD.

English.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

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